3 ms·
Troll thread
Post any of those controversial topics you would really like to talk about, but don't because we don't like trolls here.
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- xenoterracide 19y agohttp://www.soapboxxer.com/ http://www.soapboxxer.com/ is better for this sort of thing. Otherwise I'm kinda tired of flamewars/trolls and the like.
- yters 19y agoI'm not actually anticipating flames and trolls, just people posting things they think would usually get flamed or considered a troll. Just curious what'll pop up. It'll all be contained here too so as not to bug the other submissions, and you'll only come here if you expect something controversial.
- mixmax 19y agoI think it's a great idea. Sounds like fun...
- xenoterracide 19y agobut soapboxxer is perfect for that ;). It's all about controversial stuff.
- yters 19y agoBut it isn't on HN, and I bet lots of people don't know about it. So, posting there effectively silences controversy.
- rms 19y ago<Donut[AFK]> HEY EURAKARTE <Donut[AFK]> INSULT <Eurakarte> RETORT <Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-RETORT <Eurakarte> QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE <Donut[AFK]> SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP <Eurakarte> NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM <Donut[AFK]> RIPOSTE <Donut[AFK]> ADDON RIPOSTE <Eurakarte> COUNTER-RIPOSTE <Donut[AFK]> COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE <Eurakarte> NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON <Miles_Prower> RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES <Eurakarte> WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD <Miles_Prower> ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS
- asdflkj 19y agoI don't know if this thread is a good idea, but the timing is certainly good for me. Yesterday, I got modded down to -7 for suggesting that a company like 37signals isn't a startup. A startup is a business whose primary aim is growth. If you focus on revenue, you do so at the expense of growth, because people prefer free stuff over non-free stuff. Could someone explain to me why I'm wrong? (I am not saying this rhetorically, by the way. If we assume that this community is as smart as everyone says it is, then I must be wrong.)
- danw 19y agoWhere is the line between startup and small business?
- wlievens 19y agoWell, the author topic you replied to specifies a pretty clear line: either your focus is growth, or it is revenue. One can agree or disagree, but it's a relatively clear line.
- pchristensen 19y agoMaybe it rubbed people the wrong way right after DHH's talk at Startup School. Six weeks ago, I got 3000 page views (mostly from Hacker News) and 24 karma for an article where I made the exact same assertion (37s isn't a startup), and not one person complained about the characterization: "Facebook is a startup - a huge and wildly successful one, but until they find their killer revenue model, they’re living off of investment money. 37signals is not a startup - they were profitable from web design consulting while they developed Basecamp, Rails, etc, and now their products fund their business without outside investment. Fog Creek was a startup (living off of Joel’s MSFT cash) until FogBugz took off, and now revenue from that product runs their business. Google is a business, but until they perfected AdWords and Adsense (2002? 2003?), they were like Facebook is now, a really big successful startup. YouTube went from startup to acquisition and never was a business." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130757 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130757 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/hacker-vs-engineer-know-the-difference/ http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/hacker-vs-engineer...
- xenoterracide 19y agois ruby better than php?
- gscott 19y agois asp classic better then both ruby and php?
- yters 19y agoControversial? Most people here trying to create startups are wasting their time. They want to have a startup so as to become financially free, but it is much quicker and more dependable to save up money, stick it in an investment account and then live overseas.